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9:00 am Fri
Nov 14, 2014
It's pretty predictable that a list of the world's "100 strangest" foods would be mostly entrails and arthropods, but the digger wasp-crackers of Omachi, Japan are curiously appetizing (YMMV).
101 Strangest Foods Around the World
(via Crazy Abalone)
(Image: Jibachi senbei - digger wasp rice crackers, Simon the pie man)
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